Think About It

I believe that in the interest of improving self-esteem we may have given our children too much credit and assigned them too much praise. Now, please hear me out. Children should be encouraged and appreciated, but not to the point that they are the focal point of the family, church or community. Yes, they are valuable and deserve our love, but we must find balance for their lives. Now having said all that, there is at least one thing I would like to emulate from their lives – the pure joy they can express. As I write this in my office, there are several children playing just outside my door. They are loud – but they are happy – and that thrills my heart. The older I have gotten, the less pure joy I tend to find. Maybe I need to become a little more childlike in my approach to just having a genuine old fashioned good time. It is too easy to become jaded – let’s work on being joyous. There is plenty of time to be serious about life … it’s okay to let a little levity slip in as